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H. SANGHE. THERAPEUTIC APPARATUS.

No. 588,091. Patented Aug. 10,1897.

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- UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HERCULES SANCHE, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN, ASSIGN OR TO THE ANIMARIUM COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

THERAPEUTIC APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 588,091, datedAugust 10, 1897. Application filed July 7, 1892. Serial No. 439,269. (No model.) A

T to whom it may concern: T 0 enable others to understand and to Be it known that I, HERCULES SANOHE, a make, construct, and use said invention, I citizen of the United States, residing at Dewill now describe the same in detail, refertroit, in the county of Wayne and State of ence being had to the accompanying draw- 55 Michigan, have invented new and useful Imings, in whichprovements in Therapeutic Apparatus, of Figure 1 is an elevation, partly in longituwhich the following is a specification. dinal section, showing my invention. Fig. 2 My invention relates to instrumentalities is a perspective view, upon a reduced scale, or apparatus for therapeutic and other purshowing one method of using the device illus- 6o 10 poses, my object being to provide means trated in Fig. 1. Fig. 3is a detail section of whereby invigorating and remedial treatment one of the terminals, showing one manner in may be given through a connecting medium which the porous or absorbent filament is arconsisting of amore or less completely-formed ranged to communicate with the bibulous or hydrostatic column witha bibulous or porous absorbent material packed in the'terminals. 65 body with which the hydrostatic column is In said drawings the reference-numeral l mechanically combined. denotes a flexible tube, of rubber or any other It is my object, in other words, to provide material suitable for the purpose. Within an apparatus for therapeutic uses consisting this tube, which is of any suitable length, is of a contact-terminal suitable for application placed a filament 2, which may consist of a 70 to the body of a patient and a separate tercord of cotton or other fiber capable of abminal suitable for exposure to the influence sorbing and retaining a body of fluid. Ordiof different temperatures, the two being connary candle-wicking or cotton cord of proper nected by a hydrostatic or fluid column indiameter will answer all the purposesin View,

closed within a flexible sheath with a bibubut I may substitute a packing or filling of 75 lous or porous filling, with which the fluid material which is not twisted into a cord, the

column combines mechanically by capillary essential requirement being that it shall posaction. sess suitable porosity and be brought into It is my purpose also to provide an appasufficiently intimate contact to render the ratus of the type mentioned in which the fluid taken up by its capillary, cells practi- 8o connection between the patient or organism cally homogeneous throughout the length of under treatment and a source of thermal inthe tube. To facilitate the absorption, I profiuences or energy shall be made by a porous vide the tube with small openings or perfoor bibulous filament or body charged with rations 3 at intervals, though I do not regard fluid by which its capillary cells are filled, this feature as essential to the operative char- 85 thereby forming practically a fluid column actor of the device.

between the terminals. At the ends of the tube 1 are formed or at- My invention also includes the provision of tached cup shaped enlargements 4 and 5, novel means for inolosing the bibulous or porpreferably formed of the same material as and ous filament, for making suitable communiconstituting integral portions of the tube. 90 4o cation between the extremities of the bibulous One of these enlargements 4 is usually of less or porous filament and terminals attached depth and diameter than the other and is thereto, and for such construction of said terprovided with an opening nearly coextensive minals that they shall easily retain a porous, with the maximum diameter, its edgebeing bibulous, or absorbent material packed thereturned over inward to form a rib or bead 6. 5 in in such manner that it shall partake of the The interior is packed or filled with sponge 7 fluid in the connecting filament. or other suitable absorbent material with The invention consists in the novel feawhich the end of the filament 2 has contact, tures of construction and new combinations the fibers being preferably diifusedto give a of parts hereinafter fully described, and then greater contact surface. The edge, rib, or 100 more particularly pointed out in the claims bead 6 serves not only to stiffen the margin annexed to this specification. of the enlargement or cup 4, butit also serves to retain the filling or packing 7 in place. The surface of the latter preferably projects somewhat beyond the open mouth of the cup, as in Figs. 1 and 3, and a strap 8 is secured to the latter in such manner as to permit the ready attachment to the body of the patient or to one of the limbs, as shown in Fig. 2, in such manner as to draw the exposed convex surface of the filling '7 against the flesh. The other enlargement or cup 5 is preferably of greater capacity than the cup 4, and as contact of the exposed surface of its fillingis not so essential the opening or.mouth of the cup may be more contracted, its edge being supported and stilfened by a rib or bead 9. The extremity of the filament 2 is carried into this cup 5 and retained therein in any suitable manner-as, for example, by tying a knot 10 therein of a size to prevent the end being drawn into the tube. This cup is filled, like the other, with a packing 12 of sponge, fiber, or any absorbent material, which lies in intimate contact with the end of the connecting filament 2. I prefer to form small openings or perforations 13 in the wall of this cup, and similar openings may be formed in the cup 4 also, though I may omit the same in either one or both.

- The two absorbent packings 7 and 12 form the contact-terminals of the connecting filament 2, and When properly charged with water or other suitable fluid a liquid column will be formed practically and will be coextensive with the filament and its terminals.

In use the terminal 5 is exposed to a temperature higher or lower than the temperature of the organism or body to which the terminal 4 is attached. A convenient method of accomplishing this is to deposit the cup 5 in a vessel 14 of Water, which may be cooled by ice, by exposure to an outside temperature in winter, or by any other means. In like manner the Water in the vessel 1e may be heated in any manner should a high temperature be required, as compared with the temperature of the body to which the terminal 4 is attached. In both cases the water or fluid in said vessel serves to maintain the substantial integrity of the fluid column in the filament and its terminals, the capillarity of these parts being sufficieut toreplace the loss by evaporation and by absorption from the filling or terminal 4. I

-I have ascertained by experiment that when the apparatus is used in the manner first mentione(lthat is to say, when the terminal 5 is subjected to a low temperature-the body to which it is applied is rendered capable of absorbing atmospheric oxygen and of repelling and expelling hydrogen and other gases of the group to which hydrogen belongs. eifects may be modified largely by varying the degree of temperature employed, and 0pposite effects, or substantially such, may be obtained by the substitution of a high temperature. By the employment of low temperature a stimulating and invigorating efiect may be produced; and a depressing result will follow the use of high temperatures.

What I claim is- 1. A therapeutic apparatus consisting of a connecting filament of porous, or bibulous material, a flexible inclosin g tube having cups at its ends, and packings, of bibulous, or absorbent material, placed in said cups and forming terminals to the filament, substantially as described.

2. A therapeutic apparatus consistingof a connecting filament of porous, or bibulous material, an inclosing tube of flexible material having perforations and provided at its ends with enlargements, or cups, absorbent packings in said cups forming terminals for the filament, and means for attaching one terminal to the body under treatment, substantially as described.

3; A therapeutic apparatus consisting of a filament of bibulous material, a flexible tube inclosing the same, having enlargements, or cups, at its ends, formed of the material of the tube and having ribs, or marginal beads, absorbent packings, or fillings, placed in said cups and forming contact-terminals to the filament, and a strap, or straps, applied to one cup to enable it to be attached to the body under treatment, substantially as described. i

4. The combination with absorbent terminals of capillary means for sustaining a fluid; column forming a connection between said terminals, substantially as described.

5. The combination with suitable contactterminals of a bibulous or absorbent filament connecting said contact-terminals and. capable of being charged with moisture, or fluid, substantially as described. v

6. The combination with two contact-terminals of a bibulous, or, absorbent filament HERCULES SANOHE.

Witnesses:

,ADOLPH BARTHEL, A. .CHAPOTON, Jr. 

